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Yes I'm sure root is anxious to read all the mail in their local mailbox
by raverbashing 5mo ago
Yes I'm sure root is anxious to read all the mail in their local mailbox
- roryirvine 5mo agoSending mail to root@<whatever> really did use to be a pretty reliable way of getting somebody useful's attention - the early-to-mid 90s equivalent of making a "Can someone from Google please unlock my account?" post on HN.
- throw0101a 5mo agoUnder Debian/Ubuntu, when Postfix is installed, part of the standard list of questions that dpkg-reconfigure asks you is how you want mail flow to work: you can give it a central smarthost. So any local mail gets sent on, and on the central mail hub you can tell it to send root@ to someplace useful: * https://wiki.debian.org/Postfix#Forward_Emails https://wiki.debian.org/Postfix#Forward_Emails